Ability to manage/view backup files (It will allow me to view/delete/remove from inventory backup files stored on a remote share, attached drive, etc)
Check required services for application to run properly (When I first started the backup job it gave me the error below. I believe during install it should check for all required services, etc for the application to run.)
When I run the job for the first time it gives the following error:
12/8/2014 8:35:32 AM :: Creating VSS snapshot Error: Cannot collect host info. Cannot collect OS version info. Cannot get server info. Win32 error:The Server service is not started. Code: 2114
Add the ability to Pause/Stop jobs in progress
Add the ability to run multiple backup jobs (Only real reason I can think of for this feature is if I have additional larger drives attached that I want backed up less or more often and separate from the OS backup to another drive or file share.)
I was able to get the backup job running, I have my system locked down including VSS services disabled.
I run the batch script at the bottom of this link below and enabled the following two services: Volume Shadow Copy & Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider http://kb.macrium.com/knowledgebasearticle50010.aspx
The backup job is running however at a extremely slow rate even though I'm using SSD drives. I haven't read any documentation or any expected backup rates, anyone else care to comment on backup times and hardware detail? My backup job shows 11% completed during a 38 minute window.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. Regarding your performance issue – try to disable throttling in the Control Panel > Settings – be default the I/O is throttled so the performance might be low due the heavy system load?
I disabled the throttling and it did speed it up a little, at times I've seen it spike up to 10MB/s but average is 6MB/s. I do notice CPU usage stays low around 25% utilization.
I've been monitoring the Resource Monitor with all the Veeam processes. I see high Network I/O between the two VeeamAgent.exe processes, it appears this software is designed to be optimal backup over the network rather than direct attached storage? I plan on backing up my EndPoints to Veeam B&R Repository when that feature is available instead of local disk anyway. I'm going to cancel this backup and try a NAS backup and report on the statistics later.
Also you can set the endpoint priorities in the system even higher - under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Endpoint Backup find a key EndPointAgentPriority (String) and set the exising value to Normal
Well the EndPoint backup does seem to run much faster to a NAS than local disk. I changed the destination to a NAS and the job completed in 1 hour and 40 minutes for 85.6GB @ average 15MB/s with the Throttle backup activity disabled and the priority set to Normal (Thanks for the registry tip). I did see an improvement in CPU utilization and network speed.
Thank you for such a wonderful product and support help. I hope this information will be useful to someone else.
I am running TrueCrypt on the system partition with AES hardware acceleration enabled, roughly around 650MB/s encryption and 750 MB/s decryption speeds. I am not sure the impact that has had on my backup times.
And just an FYI if you are doing backup to shared folder.
Windows 7 uses Samba2.1 and Windows 8 uses Samba3/3.02. You will more than likely get better speeds if you are running Samba3 on both the source and destination as Samba3 is much more efficient and improves performance.
You can also tune SAMBA on most OS's through the registry/config files to make it perform better than the default configuration.
In my experience, NFS has been always faster than Samba, so you could look into using a NFS Share. And iSCSI has been better than NFS.
At my home lab, I'm running Windows 7 and Freenas using 2 NICS dedicated to iSCSI. I get around 120MB/s in that environment. Samba2 was about 40-50MB/s if I remember correctly.
This info might come in handy if you are backing up many sources to the same shared destination.
In any event, many destinations will be the bottleneck, especially if you are using a slow USB drive or something. It would be great if VEB could determine the bottleneck, whether it be the source, network, or destination.
My numbers without doing anything was 1 MB/S both to USB and to CIFS share.
I now disabled Throttle and edit the registry string.
Now i'm running 12 MB/S to a USB stick on a Windows 2008 R2, HP Gen 8 AD controller with 32 GB mem.
And I now got a Error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. Agent failed to process method DataTransfer.SyncDisk
Mathias,
In case you face any error during backup please open a support case thru a built in support case tool (Control Panel > Support > Technical support). If you post here a case ID - I could also take a quick look at your performance results.
